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Why visit Museum of the Asturian People
The Museum of the Asturian People is a museum in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is an open-air artspace containing Asturian popular art installations, large ethnographic items, and three buildings: Casa de los Valdes: temporary exhibition space Casa de los González de la Vega: site of the International Bagp
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Gijón, Spain
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The Museum of the Asturian People is a museum in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is an open-air artspace containing Asturian popular art installations, large ethnographic items, and three buildings: Casa de los Valdes: temporary exhibition space
Casa de los González de la Vega: site of the International Bagpipe Museum, including a collection of traditional Asturian musical instruments. The Asturian Pavilion from the 1992 Universal Exposition of Seville, installed at the museum in 1994. The museum is also known as Asturian Village, since pueblo (in Asturian language, pueblu) means both village and people, and the museum documents the culture of Asturian people, while being in a setting that contains rural buildings and houses, resembling a traditional Asturian village.
“The Museum of the Asturian People is a museum in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is an open-air artspace containing Asturian popular art installations, large ethnographic items, and three buildings: Casa de los Valdes: temporary exhibition space Casa de los González de la Vega: site of the International Bagp”
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